http://blog.xfce.org The little mouse told me... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:46:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been using a custom GTK+ RC style for the notes plugin since the version 1.4.0, right now it is at version 1.7.2. I have been playing with GTK+ theming again these last two hours, and I've get custom scrollbars, a gradient for the custom-made “title bar”, and better colours ... http://mmassonnet.blogspot.com/2010/03/include-custom-gtk-rc-style.html So SCALE 8x went okay. I was interviewed by the SCALE Public Relations team; you can see the video here. Gentoo@SCALE I'd say we had the most diverse assortment of machines at any booth -- something like 10 different machines on 5 architectures. Certainly we had a bunch of developers; we haven't had ... http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2010/03/07/scale-8x-recap Following the tradition of releasing simultaneously with the Transifex project, I’m pleased to present you the Transifex “Magneto” Appliance 0.8! There are just too many cool features to mention here… so I won’t! Just go ahead and read the release notes instead. From Transifex v8.0 featutes As far as the appliance goes, ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JournalOfAnOpenSourceeXfce/~3/fia2hb3ZsK8/ When using a status icon within the notification area it is common to use the left-click action to show/hide the main window. Obviously this is often done in different ways. So here is my tip on how to do it right :-)What I believe to me the most sense-full way ... http://mmassonnet.blogspot.com/2010/03/showhide-functionality-from.html Alexander Iliev, the current Xfce4 XKB plugin maintainer, sent a message to the goodies-dev ML telling that he is looking for a new maintainer for xfce4-xkb-plugin. Please get in touch with him if you are interested. xfce4-xkb-plugin currently has 38 open bugs on the Xfce bugzilla, 4 ... http://jeromeg.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2010/02/25/Xfce4-XKB-plugin-needs-a-new-maintainer SCALE SCALE 8x is just around the corner! I and something like 8 or 9 other devs will be there -- it'll be our biggest showing since SCALE 5x a few years ago. Several folks coming from the Bay Area or flying in from across the state. I'll drive up Friday ... http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2010/02/18/scale-git-docs-etc In the midst of my Beagleboard frustrations, I actually have a bit of good news to report. No, it's not about the Beagle. That's still a big ol' pile o' poop. First is that I was digging around in the X11 overlay, and I found out what I was missing to make ... http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2010/02/15/kernel-and-nouveau-updates This post is the first (well, second if you count the one for Xfce4 Screenshooter) of a series of post offering some ways to get involved in Xfce. We need more people if we want to keep improving Xfce! We are looking for new persons to help ... http://jeromeg.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2010/02/12/Web-developer-needed-for-xfce.org I recently released Xfce4 Screenshooter 1.7.9. This is a release candidate for the 1.8 branch. It contains a great number of new improvements and bug fixes, listed below. I recently started to contribute more to the Xfce core, particularly Xfce4 Session and Xfce4 Settings (I'll try to ... http://jeromeg.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2010/02/10/Xfce4-Screenshooter-1.7.9-Looking-for-a-new-maintainer As the Xfce release manager, I’d prefer to be the bringer of good news. Unfortunately, we have to make some adjustments with regards to the Xfce 4.8 release schedule. You may well remember last year’s chaos with the 4.6 release date. We’re trying our best not to ... http://gezeiten.org/post/2010/01/Xfce-4.8-Schedule-Changes So it's finally done, it took very long, but it's done. The download manager I once had in mind is taking off into the wildness :-) Of course it took long because I never did something with it, writing a front-end to wget/curl isn't interesting -- who cares about downloading ... http://mmassonnet.blogspot.com/2010/01/download-manager-is-in-wild.html Just wanted to tease you guys out there about a new feature that the Transifex guys are working on these days: Translation Reviews! Have you ever wandered if your translations conform to the standard vocabulary that your team uses? Have you ever wanted someone to take a look at what ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JournalOfAnOpenSourceeXfce/~3/Go8UahexjSc/ In case you’ve missed it, the Xfce project has been using their own installation of Transifex to manage their translations online! Translators can now visit http://translations.xfce.org and keep up with the action! From Transifex v8.0 featutes I’ve been contributing with translations for the Brazilian Portuguese language for quite some time now, and ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JournalOfAnOpenSourceeXfce/~3/vSAjuzLAVGY/ I've been on the hunt for Qt/KDE applications that do the job of the gtk+ equivalents I use. That's a tall order, as I'm used to the way my gtk+ applications look, feel, and behave in Xfce. Trying to learn something that may do things completely differently can be very frustrating. ... http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2010/01/17/comparing-gtk-and-qt-applications Last week I started looking at thunar-volman (a program that performs certain actions when new devices are plugged in) with the goal to make it compatible with the latest release of thunar which uses GIO instead of ThunarVFS for almost everything that takes place under the ... http://gezeiten.org/post/2010/01/Thunar-volman-and-the-deprecation-of-HAL Recap It's been several days since I installed KDE 4. I've been using it off and on, experimenting with Arora and Dolphin. I'm just starting to sample the applications available for Qt/KDE. Blokkal: an extendable blogging client for KDE4 One thing I did discover earlier tonight was a blogging client called Blokkal. This client ... http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2010/01/12/more-kde-4-3-3 Vincent, a Xubuntu contributor, pointed me at a piece in Issue #32 of the Full Circle Magazine called “Classroom Experiences”. This article, written by Anthony Parr, is a story of one teacher’s classroom experiences using Xubuntu and open source software. It was extraordinarily heart warming and I encourage folks to ... http://cody.zapto.org/?p=73 I finally did it: I compiled and installed KDE4 on my laptop on the 5th. Took all night. Hours and hours, but it was ready the next morning, with nary a compile failure. Which is good, since it is the stable branch and all. But wait . . . KDE? Why ... http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2010/01/07/on-kde-4-3-3 On his latest post titled “Foresight Linux is dead?“, Thilo Pfennigs rightly asks the question that many of the current Foresight Linux users may be asking themselves. With the current stable release dated as of May 2009 and no explicit roadmap stating when the next release will be published, is ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JournalOfAnOpenSourceeXfce/~3/pKJA7WhXdao/ First some good news. I didn't look close enough into the possibilities offered by Automake 1.11 when I first wrote the post about building Vala projects. Automake 1.11 is all about making releases without the end-users having to compile Vala! Just like it is written in the Automake documentation. From ... http://mmassonnet.blogspot.com/2009/12/messing-up-with-vala-again.html